Jisho

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12 strokes
Radical:
sun, day
Parts:
Variants:
clear up
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N3
1022 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 晴天 【セイテン】 fine weather (i.e. little or no clouds), fair weather, clear weather, clear sky, fair skies
  • 晴雨 【セイウ】 (clear or rainy) weather
  • 好晴 【コウセイ】 clear weather, good weather
  • 陰晴 【インセイ】 unsettled (fine and cloudy) weather

Kun reading compounds

  • 晴れる 【はれる】 to clear up, to clear away, to be sunny, to stop raining, to refresh (e.g. spirits), to be cleared (e.g. of a suspicion), to be dispelled, to be banished
  • 晴れ 【はれ】 clear weather, fine weather, formal, ceremonial, public, cleared of suspicion
  • 晴れる 【はれる】 to clear up, to clear away, to be sunny, to stop raining, to refresh (e.g. spirits), to be cleared (e.g. of a suspicion), to be dispelled, to be banished
  • 晴らす 【はらす】 to dispel, to clear away, to refresh (oneself), to accomplish a goal, to make it sunny, to make clouds disappear

Readings

Japanese names:
はる、 はれ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qing2
Korean:
cheong

Spanish

  • buen tiempo
  • público
  • oficial
  • buen humor
  • hacer buen tiempo
  • despejarse
  • dejar de llover
  • aclarar el tiempo

Portuguese

  • Limpar o tempo

French

  • éclaircir
265 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
172 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
155 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
739 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2143 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
784 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
604 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1597 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
662 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
673 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
281 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
990 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1234 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
670 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
893 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1552 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
13994P Morohashi
981 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2488 New Nelson (John Haig)
1538 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1658 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
217 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3846 2001 Kanji
4c8.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-8 SKIP code
6502.7 Four corner code
1-32-18 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6674 Unicode hex code

10 strokes
Radical:
plow
Parts:
till, plow, cultivate
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N2
1568 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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  • 耕作 【コウサク】 cultivation, farming
  • 耕地 【コウチ】 arable land, plantation, farmland, fazenda, hacienda, large estate
  • 農耕 【ノウコウ】 farming, agriculture, cultivation
  • 水耕 【スイコウ】 hydroponics

Kun reading compounds

  • 耕す 【たがやす】 to till, to plow, to plough, to cultivate

Readings

Japanese names:
こお
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
geng1
Korean:
gyeong

Spanish

  • cultivar
  • arado
  • arar
  • labrar

Portuguese

  • plantar
  • agricultura
  • cultivar

French

  • labourer
  • cultiver
784 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
699 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
673 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1585 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3695 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
812 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
838 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1131 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1196 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1259 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1782 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1580 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1659 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
880 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1198 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1826 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
28907P Morohashi
1308 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4710 New Nelson (John Haig)
1808 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1949 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
712 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1455 2001 Kanji
0a10.13 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-4 SKIP code
5590.0 Four corner code
1-25-44 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8015 Unicode hex code

8 strokes
Radical:
rain
Parts:
rain
Kun:
あめあま--さめ
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
950 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 雨水 【アマミズ】 rain water, "rain water" solar term (approx. February 19)
  • 雨季 【ウキ】 rainy season
  • 集中豪雨 【シュウチュウゴウウ】 local downpour, severe rain fall
  • 時雨 【シグレ】 rain shower in late autumn (fall) or early winter, seasonable rain

Kun reading compounds

  • 雨 【あめ】 rain, rainy day, rainy weather, the November suit (in hanafuda)
  • 雨降り 【あめふり】 rainfall, rainy weather, rainy, wet
  • 五月雨 【さみだれ】 early-summer rain
  • 強い雨 【つよいあめ】 heavy rain (specifically 20-29 mm per hour in JMA use)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yu3, yu4
Korean:
u

Spanish

  • lluvia

Portuguese

  • chuva

French

  • pluie
42 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
69 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
3 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
655 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5042 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
114 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
97 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
759 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.15 Japanese for Busy People
30 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
30 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
232 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1858 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4378 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2218 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2983 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
429 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
42210 Morohashi
3561 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6518 New Nelson (John Haig)
422 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
451 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
76 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3153 2001 Kanji
8d0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
4-8-1 SKIP code
1022.7 Four corner code
1-17-11 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
96e8 Unicode hex code

14 strokes
Radical:
speech 言 (訁)
Parts:
Variants:
read
Kun:
よ.む-よ.み
On:
ドクトクトウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N5
618 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 読書 【ドクショ】 reading (a book)
  • 読者 【ドクシャ】 reader
  • 積ん読 【ツンドク】 buying books and not reading them, stockpiling books, tsundoku, books bought but not read
  • 必読 【ヒツドク】 must-read, required reading
  • 読書 【ドクショ】 reading (a book)
  • 読本 【トクホン】 reading-book, reader, guidebook, manual, textbook (esp. a pre-war elementary school Japanese language textbook)
  • 読点 【トウテン】 comma
  • 句読 【クトウ】 breaks and pauses (in a sentence), punctuation, way of reading (esp. kanbun)
  • 吏読 【リト】 Idu (archaic writing system that uses Chinese characters to represent the Korean language)

Kun reading compounds

  • 読む 【よむ】 to read, to recite (e.g. a sutra), to chant, to predict, to guess, to forecast, to read (someone's thoughts), to see (e.g. into someone's heart), to divine, to pronounce, to read (e.g. a kanji), to decipher, to read (a meter, graph, music, etc.), to tell (the time), to count, to estimate, to read (a kanji) with its native Japanese reading

Readings

Japanese names:
よみ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
du2, dou4
Korean:
dog, du

Spanish

  • leer

Portuguese

  • leia

French

  • lire
123 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
206 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
189 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
484 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4375 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
55 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
88 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2142 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.10 Japanese for Busy People
244 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
244 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
180 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1689 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1943 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1038 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1401 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
354 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
35580P Morohashi
1541 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5629 New Nelson (John Haig)
348 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
372 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
323 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
233 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3057 2001 Kanji
7a7.9 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-7 SKIP code
0461.2 Four corner code
1-38-41 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8aad Unicode hex code